(CNN) -- Conventional webmaster wisdom holds that changing the name of a website leads to a drop in its popularity. "You are going to lose traffic," a SearchEngineLand blogger warned would-be name changers in 2009. "That is a fact. Even if you only perform a domain change and preserve the exact same site structure and content, you will lose some traffic." If that's true, it spells bad news for MSNBC.com, which on Monday changed its name and URL to NBCNews.com following a split from Microsoft, the technology giant that had partnered with the U.S. news network to produce the website.

That's universally regarded as a good move, but it's worth pointing out that the switch occurred before
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Facebook was a household name.


Marion Bartoli believes Amelie Mauresmo is the 'perfect' person to help Andy Murray cope with the pressure of defending his Wimbledon title. Murray took the tennis world by surprise by appointing Mauresmo, a former Australian Open and Wimbledon champion, as his coach after the French Open. Initially the deal is only for the grass-court season but both are hoping it will extend beyond that. All smiles: Marion Bartoli believes Amelie Mauresmo (left) is the perfect person to help Andy Murray (right) The partnership did not get off to the best start with Murray's third-round loss to Radek Stepanek at Queen's Club, but their focus from the start will have been Wimbledon.

Bartoli is well-placed to judge
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Amelie Mauresmo's capabilities because it was the 34-year-old to whom Bartoli turned last year for help at Wimbledon.


(CNN) -- Before there was a Tea Party, there was Mary Rakovich. Rakovich is an anti-abortion rights, pro-environment vegetarian living in Florida with her husband and nine cats. Many Tea Party activists believe she was one of the first people to publicly protest President Obama's economic policies. In February 2009, Obama was in a Fort Myers, Florida, event hall pitching his stimulus plan. Rakovich stood alone outside the hall, speaking against it. For that, she is considered to be a sort of "Godmother" of the Tea Party movement. Nine days after Rakovich's protest, CNBC business reporter Rick Santelli publicly mounted his own campaign against the president's $75 billion plan to help struggling homeowners. It happened as Santelli reported live from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on February 19, 2009.

The stimulus bill "had nothing to do with job creation whatsoever,"
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Mary Rakovich said in an interview with CNN last summer.